Web Content & Applications

Below is a brief explanation of how to set up password protection of webpages hosted on our Legacy Web Publishing system.

First, you can only protect directories. You cannot specify individual pages. But this is easily worked around by making subdirectories.

These notes only explain how to set up passwords for individual users. You can give each user on a page their own username and password, or you can give the same username and password to everyone who needs access to the pages. The latter is much easier to maintain, and works well for almost all pages that require passwords, such as a course, department, committee, etc.

Getting Started

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that develops standards to ensure the long-term growth of the web. On this site you can get help with HTML and much more.
• Pick an HTML editor. There are many available and range from Adobe's Dreamweaver to a free WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor called Kompozer.

Every webpage has permissions set behind the scenes that allow the creator of the page and other individuals to read that page on the web and/or to make changes to that page.